My abject apologies to Bobby for accidentally deleting the article he fisked so well -- please resubmit it. Clearly I should not attempt editing before breakfast, dammit!
We've got almost everything working the way it's supposed to work on the Burg. Bad's got the spam chron jobs running, I think.
The Burg itself resolves, though there are a few pictures that still need uploaded. The last build I did was the 26th, so the few things done between then and now need refreshed.
O Club now resolves to its URL but has the same cookie problem it had before. Maybe I'll get it fixed this time. It's still going to move to its own server at some point, though, which'll raise more bugs...
Thugburg's present for duty with no problems I've seen.
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This seems to be very technical, this switching over business.
I'm glad we have folks to make it transparent to the user!
This would seem to be a good spot to say, "I hit the tip jar."
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I had everything working perfectly, or so I thought, when I did the swap. Then everything fell apart.
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That's the way it is. When I used to build Novell boxes, we'd do it with 2 guys and figure 4 hours. You'd end up with two more guys coming in and be there all night. Nature of the beast.
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I think I'll wait another three years to do the next one...
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you did fine
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Fred: Switching over is a bear. I've done three myself. The basic stuff went okay, web, database, even mail server, but when I got to the human interface, that was the time consuming thing.
My webmail interface for the web server I have had up for 18 months to this day suffers from a workaround from a failed perl subroutine; not a thing I can do about it if I want to continue using the interface.
And my offer stands: if you do this again whether in three months or three years, best start shaking the fleas off the dawg's blanket, I'm coming to Baltimore to help.
[Dawn] A jacket wallah struck Sunday at the gate of the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 11 people in a city where Afghans have recently taken control of security.
The blast, which ripped a gaping hole in the station compound's wall, also maimed as least 12 people, said Helmand provincial front man Daoud Ahmadi. He said the dead included 10 coppers and one child.
People at the site said they saw a police vehicle on fire at the gate. Ahmadi said a suicide bomber apparently drove a car between two police vehicles at the entrance and then set detonated the explosives.
Taliban front man Qari Yusef Ahmadi grabbed credit for the attack.
It has been less than two weeks since Lashkar Gah was formally handed over to Afghan control in the first stage of a plan to have all of Afghanistan under the oversight of Afghan cops by the end of 2014. It is the capital city of a province that has been a stronghold for the insurgency and where US Marines have surged in over the past year to try to turn back the Taliban.
The attack comes as Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tours Afghanistan for a second day. He has been meeting with military commanders and troops in the south, a region that has been rocked by violence and suicide kabooms in recent weeks. Mullen visited a base outside the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday morning.
In the east, meanwhile, an international service member was killed in a pre-dawn kaboom, according to a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... forces statement.
The statement did not provide further details on Sunday's attack, nor the nationality of the dead.
At least 48 international service members have been killed in Afghanistan in July, including the latest death.
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[Tolo News] At least 11 security guards of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supply cars and 7 Talibs were killed in Ghazni province on Saturday night, local official said on Sunday.
The incident happened in Moqur district of Ghazni province when Talibs attacked on NATO supply cars and clashed with security guards, Zorawar Zahid, police chief of Ghazni told TOLOnews news hound.
The security guards worked for "Watan Risk" a private security company. Five other security guards and three Talibs were maimed in the festivities, he added.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.
Moqur is an insecure district in the province where Talibs have been active often targeting Afghan police check posts.
Talibs have previously attacked on NATO supply cars on Kabul-Kandahar highway and have suffered heavy casualties.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Leaders of a mosque at the centre of terrorist funding allegations on Sunday confirmed that a suspected al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... financier was an official of Pumwani Riyadha Mosque in Nairobi.
But they denied ever having been involved in terror activities and threatened to sue their bank, which they accused of breaching client confidentiality.
They also claimed many more public figures gave money to their mosque construction project.
Pumwani Riyadha Mosque Committee members said 'Amiir' Ahmad Iman was the secretary of the building committee at the mosque but left in 2009 without notice.
In Mombasa, politicians and Mohammedan leaders defended Tourism minister Najib Balala and Nominated MP Amina Abdallah against allegations in the UN report that they gave money that could have ended up with terrorists.
Kisauni MP Hassan Ali Joho, Mayor Ahmed Muhdhar and Mvita politician Abdullswamad Nassir set a side their political differences with Mr Balala and defended him against the allegations. Speaking at Madrasatul Islah Al-Islamiyya in Mvita, they said Mr Balala had never associated himself with terrorism.
"We know Najib Balala is clean on this issue and we cannot support what is wrong because of our political differences. Let UN go into Somalia and deal with al-Shabaab instead of soiling the image of our leaders," Mr Joho said.
Mayor Muhdhar said this "was a plot to weaken Islam and frustrated leaders' efforts to support religious activities in this country and we should now unite to stand as one team."
Mr Nassir said: "It is very unfortunate that Mr Balala is reported as having helped al-Shabaab. I view this as a tactic to stop Mohammedans from financing their religious activities,"
Mr Hassan Omar of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights said Mr Balala was opposed to fundamentalism.
"Of all people, it is unbelievable to read that Balala in funding al-Shabaab. We have differed with him on many instances but allow me to defend him on this issue," Mr Omar told a public forum on new constitution on Sunday at a Mombasa hotel.
The UN Security Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea says 'Amiir' Ahmad Iman funnelled funds from the mosque and the Mohammedan Youth Council to al-Shabaab.
The committee also said 'Amiir' Ahmad Iman, who is named as the terrorist group's point man in fundraising through the mosque, was no longer their member.
Mr Hashim Kamau, the secretary of Youth Affairs at Supreme Council of Kenya Mohammedans (Supkem) and Mr Abdulkarim Mohsin, an elder, said Mr Iman was the secretary of the committee until 2009.
The committee's vice chairman, Mr Ali Abdulmajid and treasurer Dr Iddi Abdallah in a statement also denied links with al-Shabaab.
"He was the secretary at that time and according to our constitution, the secretary and the treasurer are automatic signatories to the mosque accounts," Mr Hashim said.
But he emphasised that Mr Iman worked within the policies and decisions of the entire committee, which did not authorize funding al-Shabaab.
"All the money that Mr Balala and Ms Abdalah donated went into the construction of the mosque which is yet to be completed.
"We have spent Sh30 million so far in the construction and the committee is still fundraising to attain our budget of Sh48 million. And in fact, we are still asking Balala and others to assist us," he said.
According to Mr Mohsin, the suspect stopped being the secretary of the building committee after missing three sittings.
"Our constitution says that if one misses three consecutive committee sittings, then he automatically forfeits his place. He missed three such meetings and left. He is no longer our member," he said.
The committee has now threatened to sue Habib Bank, one of the banks where the mosque's accounts are, accusing it of breaching client confidentiality.
Mr Kamau said a pledge of Sh50,000 on behalf of Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka was made to the mosque but not honoured.
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The only thing missing is "We run a legitimate mosque".
[An Nahar] Libya's rebels routed a militia group accused of assassinating their military chief and of links to Moammar Qadaffy, ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... they said, after an hours-long battle Sunday in their Benghazi stronghold.
Medics and rebels said at least four rebel and 11 pro-Qadaffy fighters were killed in the fierce shootout, which erupted around dawn during a raid on the cell holed up at a roadside factory in the eastern city.
"It was a long battle and it took many hours because they were heavily armed," Mahmoud Shammam told Agence La Belle France Presse. "In the end we tossed in the clink 31 of them. We lost four people."
He said the group, which suffered "about 20 casualties," was rounded up for its role in organizing a prison break in Benghazi earlier in the week.
Rebel forces had surrounded the camp of the group linked to Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy after they refused to obey an order from the rebels' National Transitional Council (NTC) for all militias to disband and lay down their arms.
The clash follows last week's liquidation of rebel military chief General Abdul Fatah Younis, whose death remains cloaked in mystery. The general was a right-hand man to Qadaffy before his defection to the rebel ranks.
Farid Juwayli, head of security in Benghazi, said a rebel militia had uncovered the group linked to Qadaffy's regime holed up in a license plate factory.
Among them were several prisoners who had beat feet in the prison break, the security chief said. The clash broke out after the suspects refused to surrender.
The group "had plans to plant car booms in Benghazi," according to Mustafa al-Sagazly, deputy chief of the militia, the February 17 brigade. "We found a large number of explosives typically found in car booms."
While the rebels have been trying to quash rumors about the mysterious death of their army chief, the Qadaffy regime said on Sunday that it was in contact with members of the NTC.
"There are contacts with Mahmoud Jibril (number two in the NTC), and (Ali) Essawy (in charge of external relations), (religious leader Ali) Sallabi and others," deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaaim told a Tripoli news conference.
Qadaffy on Saturday night renewed his pledge "never to abandon" the battle, in an audio tape broadcast on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
despite NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... air strikes earlier the same day on the broadcaster's headquarters in Tripoli.
Libya's enemies would be "defeated in the face of the resistance and courage of the Libyan people," he said in a speech following the strikes which Tripoli said killed three journalists.
The rebels, who have frequently denied having had any direct negotiations with Tripoli, sought to stamp out rumors by giving details on Younis' killing and bringing all militias under the control of the NTC interior ministry.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos... the Benghazi villa of the murdered general was surrounded by checkpoints early on Sunday and no traffic allowed on the coastal city's main highway.
South of Benghazi, rebels reported an attack by pro-Qadaffy forces on the southern oasis town of Jalo, but said it had been repulsed.
On the western front in the five-month-old armed revolt, Libyan rebels on Sunday took the village of Josh at the foot of the Nafusa mountain range, AFP journalists said.
"We took Josh this morning and are now heading west. Now we're fighting to take Tiji," further down the valley, Juma Brahim, head of the rebel fighters' operational command in the Nafusa region, told AFP.
He gave a casualty toll of three dead and four maimed.
The Nafusa region has seen heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... between rebels and forces loyal to Qadaffy since the hard boyz launched a major offensive this month in a drive on Tripoli.
NATO said its warplanes carried out 50 strike sorties on Saturday, with hits in the areas of Brega, Zliten, Waddan and Tripoli.
La Belle France said on Sunday it was committed to striking Qadaffy's military assets for as long as needed for him to quit power, and called on Libyans in Tripoli to rise up against him.
"We say to Qadaffy that we will not ease our pressure and to his opponents that we will not abandon them," French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet was quoted as saying by the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
"Things have to move more in Tripoli ... the population must rise up," he added.
Libya's rebels routed a militia group accused of assassinating their military chief and of links to Moammar Qadaffy, they said, after an hours-long battle Sunday in their Benghazi stronghold.
Medics and rebels said at least four rebel and 11 pro-Qadaffy fighters were killed in the fierce shootout, which erupted around dawn during a raid on the cell holed up at a roadside factory in the eastern city.
"It was a long battle and it took many hours because they were heavily armed," Mahmoud Shammam told Agence La Belle France Presse. "In the end we tossed in the clink 31 of them. We lost four people."
He said the group, which suffered "about 20 casualties," was rounded up for its role in organizing a prison break in Benghazi earlier in the week.
Rebel forces had surrounded the camp of the group linked to Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy after they refused to obey an order from the rebels' National Transitional Council (NTC) for all militias to disband and lay down their arms.
The clash follows last week's liquidation of rebel military chief General Abdul Fatah Younis, whose death remains cloaked in mystery. The general was a right-hand man to Qadaffy before his defection to the rebel ranks.
Farid Juwayli, head of security in Benghazi, said a rebel militia had uncovered the group linked to Qadaffy's regime holed up in a license plate factory.
Among them were several prisoners who had beat feet in the prison break, the security chief said. The clash broke out after the suspects refused to surrender.
The group "had plans to plant car booms in Benghazi," according to Mustafa al-Sagazly, deputy chief of the militia, the February 17 brigade. "We found a large number of explosives typically found in car booms."
While the rebels have been trying to quash rumors about the mysterious death of their army chief, the Qadaffy regime said on Sunday that it was in contact with members of the NTC.
"There are contacts with Mahmoud Jibril (number two in the NTC), and (Ali) Essawy (in charge of external relations), (religious leader Ali) Sallabi and others," deputy foreign minister Khaled Kaaim told a Tripoli news conference.
Qadaffy on Saturday night renewed his pledge "never to abandon" the battle, in an audio tape broadcast on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
despite NATO air strikes earlier the same day on the broadcaster's headquarters in Tripoli.
Libya's enemies would be "defeated in the face of the resistance and courage of the Libyan people," he said in a speech following the strikes which Tripoli said killed three journalists.
The rebels, who have frequently denied having had any direct negotiations with Tripoli, sought to stamp out rumors by giving details on Younis' killing and bringing all militias under the control of the NTC interior ministry.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the Benghazi villa of the murdered general was surrounded by checkpoints early on Sunday and no traffic allowed on the coastal city's main highway.
South of Benghazi, rebels reported an attack by pro-Qadaffy forces on the southern oasis town of Jalo, but said it had been repulsed.
On the western front in the five-month-old armed revolt, Libyan rebels on Sunday took the village of Josh at the foot of the Nafusa mountain range, AFP journalists said.
"We took Josh this morning and are now heading west. Now we're fighting to take Tiji," further down the valley, Juma Brahim, head of the rebel fighters' operational command in the Nafusa region, told AFP.
He gave a casualty toll of three dead and four maimed.
The Nafusa region has seen heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... between rebels and forces loyal to Qadaffy since the hard boyz launched a major offensive this month in a drive on Tripoli.
NATO said its warplanes carried out 50 strike sorties on Saturday, with hits in the areas of Brega, Zliten, Waddan and Tripoli.
La Belle France said on Sunday it was committed to striking Qadaffy's military assets for as long as needed for him to quit power, and called on Libyans in Tripoli to rise up against him.
"We say to Qadaffy that we will not ease our pressure and to his opponents that we will not abandon them," French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet was quoted as saying by the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
"Things have to move more in Tripoli ... the population must rise up," he added.
[Yemen Post] AQAP military commander in Yemen, Qasim Mahdi, threatened to conduct large scale attacks in Soddy Arabia in retaliation to the kingdom's treatment of female relatives of wanted suspected who were imprisoned.
Mahdi claims that the Saudi authorities incarcerated the female relatives while informing them that they would be taken to visit Mohammed Bin Naif, who heads the terror file in the kingdom, in an effort to have him release their relatives.
Mahdi called King Abdullah an infidel and called on free Saudis to kill him.
The threats came in a recorded video that was released on a number of Jihadi website.
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Interesting. Having picked up the womenfolk by way of pressure tactics, will they next pick up the sons?
[Yemen Post] The army has tossed in the clink an Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen's southern province Abyan where it has been fighting Islamists for months.
Abdullah Saeed Omer Hubaibat was captured at a security checkpoint on Friday and was handed to the authorities, Saba quoted a security source as saying.
The arrest coincided with many casualties in Abyan in the continuous battles between the army and suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies.
Hubaibat was one of the extremely dangerous Islamic fascistisince he played roles in terrorist operations targeting security checkpoints, security and military personnel, vehicles and convoys as well as targeting civilians, Saba reported. It quoted the source as saying that three more Al-Qaeda elements were tossed in the clink today near Zinjbar, Abyan's capital, and a fourth was killed.
Separately, two of those who were on a list of wanted suspects in connection with bombing the oil pipeline and power towers in Marib handed themselves in to the Interior Ministry on Saturday.
Ameen Naji Hassan Ghareeb and Zaid Hassan bin Ali were wanted for bombing in Marib and involvement in causing the fuel crisis and power blackouts, but now their names were omitted for the blacklist, Saba said.
The Interior Ministry urges other suspects to surrender otherwise the authorities will pursue them to bring them to justice.
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Tribes in Yemen are forming a coalition to stand against any attempt of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... coming back to Yemen.
In the launch of the Yemen Tribal Coalition, Sheikh Sadeq Ahmar said that it was time for the tribes to take the leading role for change in Yemen and ensure security and safety for the Yemeni people. Ahmar vowed not to let President Saleh back to Yemen and continue ruling the country. "Saleh will not rule Yemen as long as I am alive. We will not allow him," said Ahmar.
More than 750 tribal leaders attended the launch of the biggest tribal coalition in Yemen's recent history. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the coalition did not involve leading tribal figures in the country.
Sheikh Mohammed Nagi Shaef, head of Yemen's biggest tribe, Bakeel, said that the new coalition does not represent tribes of Yemen but rather the Islah Islamist party. "Leading tribal figures are not with Ahmar. The Islah party and its followers are only behind Ahmar," said Shaef.
He insisted that he will continue being loyal to President Saleh and will not go against Yemen's constitutional president. "Anyone who seeks change should not do so through coalitions and threats. Elections is the only way for modern change," Shaef concluded.
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[Yemen Post] Clashes in the northern Jawf province ended on yesterday after Sheikh Ali Qaisi, a prominent Yemeni tribal leader, succeeded in reaching a ceasefire agreement between the Houthi fighters and Islah Islamist party fighters.
At least 110 people were killed over the last month in Jawf festivities. Islah party still controls the majority of the areas in Jawf provinces, while Houthis are trying to expand in the province. The fighting in Jawf started in late May and was non-stop until this week.
Islah party supporters control the military bases the government left behind after being pressured by pro revolution youth to leave the province.
It is worth mentioning that Jawf province borders Soddy Arabia from the south.
Though sides reach an agreement yesterday, slight festivities were reported in Jawf, and locals in the province are not confident that the ceasefire will continue for long.
Sa'ada is today completely under the control of the Houthis, though government forces still exist in security check points and has military bases there.
No festivities have been reported in Sa'ada in 2011.
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[Yemen Post] President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... called on the political forces on Sunday to stick with and implement a GCC-brokered power deal and the UN Security Council Declaration to solve the current problems in Yemen.
The call of Saleh, who is , being treated in Soddy Arabia for injuries after he survived an liquidation attempt inside his palace in June, came in his speech to the nation on the month of fasting Ramadan.
Saleh backed out of signing the GCC West-backed plan that called for his ouster three times at the last minutes, the latest after his party and the opposition inked it in May.
"There is no alternative for a dialogue based on the national principles and constitution to achieve comprehensive reforms and lift our country out of its crises," he was qouted as saying by Saba.
Furthermore, Saleh urged all the Yemeni parties to seize the opportunity in Ramadan to start a constructive dialogue, saying violence is never a good way of change.
"I call on all parties to avoid violence and destruction whatever the reasons for these are. Violence reuslts only in violence, political disputes and wars, and at the end the people are the only victims," he said.
Reaching power should not be through inciting chaos, road closures, hampering the interests of the public and increasing their suffering through depriving them from basic services such as fuel, electricity and water, he was qouted as saying.
Praising the efforts of his deputy, Hadi, in solving the Yemeni problems and holding dialogue with the political forces, Saleh who has recently undergone a ninth surgery for burns in his body, urged the Yemeni political forces to put the country's interest above anything else.
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I've seen this movie before. Badanov will likely have more info
Mexicos Attorney General announced that the alleged lieutenant of the Sinaloa cartel suspected in dozens of murders in Baja California has escaped from a Mexico City hospital where he was being very loosely held. Almost as if he was allowed to escape?
The announcement said that Héctor Eduardo Guajardo Hernández, 33, known as el Güicho, escaped through a hospital window Wednesday apparently with the assistance of two federal agents guarding him. "C'mon dammit, get through the window!. Jeebus you're heavy!"
Baja California police had captured Guajardo in Mexicali on May 9 in shootout in which he was wounded. He was transferred to a hospital in Mexico City, where he was being held while authorities investigated his alleged participation in the murders of dozens of people, including 10 police officers. good thing there's loyalty among the Fraternal Order of Policia
A preliminary investigation indicated that two agents from Mexicos Federal Investigative Agency, who have disappeared and won't be found alive, helped the prisoner escape, the announcement said. Two other federal agents in the room next to Guajardos are under investigation
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Baja California police had captured Guajardo in Mexicali on May 9 in shootout in which he was wounded.
Ah, I think I've found the problem. The next time they find him, they should see that it's rectified.
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Guajardo Hernandez was apparently an enforcer and an area commander in Baja California at best; he never came up in any news reports I have read about Baja California since I started tracking Mexican drug war news.
China on Monday blamed Mohammedanterrorists extremists trained in Pakistain for launching one of two deadly weekend attacks in a troubled far western region, while overseas activists feared the government could respond by cracking down on ethnic Uighurs widely blamed for the unrest.
Sunday's attack left 11 dead, including five suspected terrorists assailants, in the Silk Road city of Kashgar. Authorities have not pinpointed suspects behind clashes a day earlier in the city that killed seven, including one of two terrorists men who allegedly hijacked a truck and rammed it into a crowd.
The weekend violence raised tensions across the Xinjiang region on China's western frontier, which has been under tight security since 2009 when almost 200 people were killed in fighting between Han Chinese and minority Uighurs, a largely Mohammedan ethnic group that sees Xinjiang as its homeland.
The city said Monday an initial investigation showed terrorists members of the group allegedly behind Sunday's attack had been trained in explosives and firearms in Pak camps run by the banned East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a terrorist militant group advocating independence for Xinjiang. It offered no proof in the statement on its website. China says the group is allied with al-Qaida.
Pakistain, a key ally to China, condemned the violence and offered support in combating the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. A Foreign Ministry statement said it was "fully confident" the people of Xinjiang autonomous region and the Chinese government "will succeed in frustrating evil designs of the terrorists, extremists and separatists, who constitute an evil force."
Xinjiang region has been beset by ethnic conflict and a sometimes-violent separatist movement by Uighurs, who say they have been marginalized as more majority Han Chinese move into the region.
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Soungs Like a semi-organized Cluster fuck, BUT they got it done.
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Of course, The New Yorker didn't want to give Bush any credit so they carefully danced around how they found out who the courier was...which was the key to the entire thing. If it were not for waterboarding KSM, we would never have known who the courier was. We all know ole George would have done the same thing.
I am impressed by how serious Bambi was about killing OBL.
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I am impressed by how serious Bambi was about killing OBL.
By killing OBL, I believe 'The One®'s' rationale is that NOW we can reduce military funding without recourse from the masses. No more need for those nasty military weapons and personnel as the 'goal has been won'.
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Obama returned to the White House at two oâclock, after playing nine holes of golf at Andrews Air Force Base.
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The briefing lasted about thirty-five minutes. Obama wanted to know how Ahmed had kept locals at bay; he also inquired about the fallen Black Hawk and whether above-average temperatures in Abbottabad had contributed to the crash.
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Yeah, I caught the golf line. At the end, there's this -
Obama presented the team with a Presidential Unit Citation and said, Our intelligence professionals did some amazing work. I had fifty-fifty confidence that bin Laden was there, but I had one-hundred-per-cent confidence in you guys. You are, literally, the finest small-fighting force that has ever existed in the world.
Even with a teleprompter, that's good. Obvious, sure, but good.
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The high walls of the compound and the warm temperatures had caused the Black Hawk to descend inside its own rotor washa hazardous aerodynamic situation known as settling with power. In North Carolina, this potential problem had not become apparent, because the chain-link fencing used in rehearsals had allowed air to flow freely.
I surmise using the chain link fence vice building a solid wall was based on a combination of expediency and security issues. No doubt it will be added to 'lessons learned'.
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in Abbottabad that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Suddenly, two men with guns entered the room. A shot rang out. A door slammed. The maid screamed. A pirate ship appeared on the horizon. The storm broke in all its fury! Then the dam broke! The cavalry rode to the rescue, but they were a little too wet!
The volcano erupted! and threw lava over everything in sight! The price of foodstuffs skyrocketed! There was nothing for the Scarlet Pumpernickel to do but blow his brains out, which he did.
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Per playing Golf - that might have been part of a 'show' that nothing special is happening re: the press and media. The Golf game had probably been scheduled [days?] in advance and to suddenly change the schedule might have alerted someone that something was up.
As much as I would like to nail Obumbles on something - I don't think this is it.
And moose - you forgot about Women and Minorities been most effected :).
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Settling with power can occur from a number of issues. Landing multiple aircraft inside a walled compound causes pretty substantial issues to flight. The pilots that flew this are all experts at landing in confined areas like that. But once you add all the other contributing factors, like knowing your going in on Bin Laden, a minor miscalculation can be critical. I'm not sure why everyone is so focused on the aircraft. No one was killed, the mission went well. Equipment is there to be used and if needed destroyed in the mission.
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Given the history at Desert One, the helicopter snafu the helicopter crash is hardly a minor miscalculation. For an operation of this importance and risk, use of chain link fence for whatever reason in the target mock-up was a potentially tragic error that was only mitigated by the skill and courage of that helicopter pilot.
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We are 100 generations away from deset one. Desert one was the genisis for these type units. When conventional forces try to execute complex missions outside their training profile events like desert one take place. NS, I'm not trying to downplay the event, more important than the crash was the loss of classified technology. These guys put them in hard quiet often, lets look at history. The unit lost a couple aircraft, a black Hawk and chinook during Grenada, no one really cared. We lost a number of aircraft during Panama, again silence. a couple in Somalia, the mission was botched, and the aircraft losses were not the issue but the lack of command and control during the fight that caused all the losses. I cant remember how many we lost during Desert storm and OIF. Now we are in Afghanistan. Two chinooks and a black hawk come to mind right off the top. And of course the chinook in the Phillippines all from the same group. These boys fly into spots no other aviators would even try. To bame it on a fence would be the easy answer to get some reporter off their back or something the reporter might say to stir things up. All in all, a good hit where only the bad guys died. Aircraft are expendable and I'm certain the fence in training had little to do with the crash. The pilots certainly saw photos of the compound and saw the wall. You are certainly right that those pilots are the best in the world, their cargo, navy Seals, are some pretty important folks!
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Osama had times already made it clear that he preferred death to being captured alive.
IMO the Bammer, etal. made a mistake in not bringing back Osama's body to the US [or other secure neutral SIte = City, e.g. London or Brussels] for independent verification, analysis, + ultimately display before the Amer people. - THE US INCURRED RADICAL ISLAM'S WRATH = DESIRE FOR REVENGE ANYWAY ONCE THE FINAL DECISION WAS MADE TO PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE OSAMA'S DEATH - IMO, THE US = US-ALLIES HUNTING OSAMA GAINED OR LOST NOTHING BY BRINGING HIS BODY BACK TO THE US OR NEUTRAL.
As macabre as it may be to many Amers in 2011, ABBOTTABAD = HUEY LONG + JFK + RFK + MLK + MALCOLM X, ETC. ASSASSINATIONS = ASKS MUCH MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERED, wid various pertinent critical Conpiracy Theories lasting just as long.
JAMMU, July 30: Displaying extraordinary courage, a Bakerwal youth not only dodged two foreign mercenaries, reportedly belonging to Pakistan's Punjab province and affiliated to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit but also managed to snatch AK-47 rifle of one of them before reaching a safe location from where he was rescued by a police party in Banihal area of Ramban district.
This is why the bible emphasizes that King David was a shepherd as a boy. The best among them demonstrate responsibility and care for their charges, quick wit and ingenuity, and the martial spirit necessary to overcome murderous foes.
A mobile telephone in possession of the youth, which had earlier been snatched by the militants from his possession but later restored presuming that he had joined their ranks, helped the Bakerwal boy to reach the police custody along with a weapon. The youth is being recommended for the bravery award and his recruitment in police is a possibility, official sources said.
Declining to disclose identity of the youth due to security reasons, police sources said the 22 year old boy, originally a resident of Vijaypur, Reasi, had shifted to Tanji Narh in Banihal area of Ramban along with his family and other Bakerwals in the summer.
While he was grazing cattle in the forests, two foreign militants, who were reportedly new in the area, kidnapped him on the evening of July 20 and asked him to show them safe routes leading to Pir Panjal range. The family lodged a missing report of the youth with Banihal police station on July 24.
I hope the cattle were rescued later, as well.
The youth told police after escaping custody of the militants early this morning that both of them were speaking Punjabi. They were believed to be Pakistani militants of Punjab province affiliated to the LeT outfit. Both of them were equipped with arms, ammunition and explosive devices.
Sources said the militants tried to motivate the kidnapped youth to join their ranks. They also snatched his mobile telephone and removed its battery to ensure that their presence was not tracked by security agencies using signal of the cell phone. Finding him helpless, the youth started posing himself as an associate of the militants. Presuming that the youth had joined militancy, the foreign terrorists restored his telephone and started trusting him.
The militants trekked several forests and finally established their base in Zamandu forest area, which was surrounding by a small habitation few kilometers away and had water facilities.
In the meantime, Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Banihal Abdul Qayoom and SHO Banihal Sajjad Mir under the supervision of DIG Doda-Ramban range Manish Kumar Sinha and SP Ramban Anil Magotra established contact with the youth through his mobile telephone during which he started narrating few details about the militants after getting a chance.
Last evening when one of the militants had gone to collect food in a surrounding habitation and another was taking rest after consuming some drugs, the Bakerwal youth displayed tremendous courage as he removed the weapon (an AK-47 rifle) from under the head of the militant and escaped from the spot.
He trekked several kilometers before reaching Zabban forests where a Banihal police party was already waiting for him. The youth was rescued. As he had dumped the weapon in a forest while fleeing custody of the militants, the Army and police parties reached the spot along with the boy and recovered the weapon.
He was safely brought to Banihal police station.
Sources said the youth disclosed during questioning that the militants were confirmed Pakistanis as they didn't recognize any route and wanted to reach a particular area in Pir Panjal range. He added that one of the militants, who was a commander, was drug addict but was constantly in touch with some militants through his satellite telephone. Both the militants were in possession of one AK rifle and one wireless set each besides a number of magazines, explosive devices, dry fruits, a satellite telephone, drugs and some documents.
Immediately after the escape of the Bakerwal boy, Army and police teams launched massive searches in Zamandu forest area but by then the militants had escaped from the spot well aware of the fact that the escaped boy would have sounded security forces about their whereabouts.
However, security forces and police continued searches in the forests to track down the militants.
Sources said the ultras were believed to be fresh entrants to Banihal, which was evident from the fact that they were not aware of the routes. The route taken by them to reach Banihal was being ascertained by the security agencies, they added.
Meanwhile, security forces and police have appreciated the courage displayed by the boy in dodging the militants and fleeing from their custody along with the weapon. A handsome reward is being sanctioned in his favour and a possibility of his recruitment into police would also be explored, sources said.
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Boy? He's 22. I thought this was gonna be the Kashmiri version of "Home Alone"...
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TW, the "shepherd" meme is all throughout the Bible. It began with Abel, a shepherd, whose offering was accepted.
Good point, Spot. The question is why the shepherd is so important. Why not the careful farmer, the war leader, the king? It must go beyond the fact that Abraham left life as a city dweller in Ur to follow his herds, given that a goodly proportion of the Jewish Bible was written after the Israelites settled in Canaan, becoming farmers and craftsmen as well as herders and hunters...and later city dwellers, warriors, and kings. :-)
"King of kings, and Lord of lords," was the text Handel used for his Messiah. The sweet psalmist wrote, "The Lord is my shepherd."
An Iranian tribal leader and four other persons were gunned down in the Pakistani southwestern Balochistan province Saturday night, IRNA reported quoting police as saying.
'Iranian tribal leader Abdul Razzaq along with four associates was travelling in a vehicle when unknown armed men riding bike opened fire at the vehicle in Turbat district,' police said. As a result, all the five people died at the scene at Mand Bloo area of Turbat district, police said.
The assailants managed to escape, they said. Security forces launched search operation to trace out the assailants. But no one has been arrested so far. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. Did the local coppes at least file a case?
Police said they are investigating motives behind the attack. "Any idea why they did this, Sarge?"
"Nope, no idea at all, Muldoon."
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Hey, unknown armed men riding bike. Are we in Tehran?
BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG...
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Were they Iranian Balochs (Balochis?) come to visit their relatives on the Pakistani side of the the border, or something less innocent?
What makes you characterize the above scenario as particularly innocent, trailing? As far as I can tell, eighty percent of the Afghan war has been "Pakistani Pashtuns visiting their relatives on the Afghan side of the border".
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As far as I can tell, eighty percent of the Afghan war has been "Pakistani Pashtuns visiting their relatives on the Afghan side of the border".
When I go a-visiting, it is innocent, Mitch. I forgot that others are more complex in their thinking. Thank you for reminding me.
[Dawn] Sindh Police's Crime Investigation Department on Sunday conducted raids in Bloody Karachi's Maripur and Sohrab Goth areas and tossed in the slammer four members of the banned myrmidon group Tehreek-e-Taliban, DawnNews reported.
CID's SSP Chaudhry Aslam said that the tossed in the slammer men belonged to TTP and had been conducting crimes in Bloody Karachi through which they would collect money to send to Wazoo.
According to the police, the culprits had also been planning terrorist activities in Bloody Karachi. Various weapons and explosives were also ceased from their possession.
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[Dawn] At least one person was killed and nine others injured in a hand grenade attack in industrial town of Hub on Sunday.
"Unknown men riding a bike lobbed a hand grenade at people having lunch at a roadside restaurant," a senior police official Muhammad Amin Khosa said adding, ten people sustained serious wounds and one of them pegged out on the way to hospital.
The dear departed was identified as Naeem. The assailants managed to escape.
The law enforcement personnel rushed to the site and cordoned off the entire area.
Some of the injured admitted in the hospital are stated to be at death's door.
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[Dawn] Police say suspected Taliban fighters Legume, I suspect those are -- duck! -- Taliban fighters! Inspector! How do you do it? have shot and killed a pro-government tribal elder who was trying lure back rustics who had decamped northwest Pakistain because of fighting between Islamic fascistiand the army.
Police officer Sana Ullah says gunnies on a cycle of violence shot Malik Arsala Khan on Sunday in the main bazaar in Tank district.
The Pak Taliban has warned rustics in the past not to return to areas where they are fighting the army. But the government has urged them to go, partly in an attempt to signal that the military operations have been successful at taming the cut-thoats.
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[Dawn] As ministers, political activists and members of civil society converged in the southern district of the city on Saturday to denounce the recent wave of terrorism, peace remained a distant dream for Bloody Karachiites as at least 10 more people, including two brothers, were bumped off in the metropolis, mainly in its eastern and western parts.
Though police said that one or two of the killings were result of personal enmity, the Sherlocks could not find such a link behind the incidents.
Apart from armed attacks in different areas, parts of Landhi remained hotspots, where a deadly gunbattle and hand-grenade attacks left two political activists dead and two minor boys maimed as daily life in the neighbourhood remained paralysed.
"The two victims have been identified as Azeem alias Mota and Dilshad alias Khan Saab," Naeem Barokha, the DIG-East, told Dawn. "The affected areas included Sherpao Colony and Landhi 89."
Area police said both victims, in their mid-30s, were members of the Amir Khan-led faction of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM-H) and had rejoined the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... recently.
"They became MQM activists after their leader Amir Khan joined the party with his workers and supporters. Residents of Landhi, both were killed near Hussaini Chowrangi near the Quaidabad cop shoppe," said DSP Badar Ali Shah, the area's supervisory police officer.
"There has been an armed clash between two parties but we have isolated and cordoned off the strife-hit pockets so that the violence does not spread further. We are in the final phase of planning and will enter the affected areas with police
commandoes and Rangers."
In an early morning incident, two brothers working with a transporter were killed in Pak Colony when they were waiting for the family which had booked a bus for a function. The area police said the armed riders targeted Sadaqat Ali and his younger brother Murtaza Ali, who worked as a driver and a cleaner of the bus, respectively, in Bismillah Colony.
"They had come to pick up a family in the area and were waiting for them to get onto the bus at the corner of a street," said Inspector Shakeel Sherwani, the SHO of the Pak Colony cop shoppe. "As the two brothers were waiting inside the parked bus, two men on a cycle of violence arrived there and fired at them. Both sustained multiple bullets and was struck down in his prime. According to witnesses, the attackers were being protected by two more riders on another bike."
A political activist met with the same fate in Orangi Town.
Area police said gunnies on a motorbike spotted 30-year-old Zahid Saeed in Chishti Nagar in Sector 11½ of the town.
"He was a cable operator and lived in the same area," said Inspector Matiullah, the SHO of the Iqbal Market cop shoppe.
Though he denied any political association of the victim, police sources said Zahid was an area worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
In a Korangi locality, the police found the bodies of two young men, stuffed in a gunny bag. They said the victims were hit by a single bullet each in the head. Besides, signs of severe torture were visible on their bodies.
"The bodies were found at an isolated place called Band No 5 of Shah Faisal Naddi," said Sub-Inspector Waheed Iqbal, the acting SHO of the Korangi Industrial Area cop shoppe. "Both victims appear to be in their late 20s or early 30s. Their bodies were stuffed in gunny bags while their hands and legs were tied with ropes. The bodies were shifted to the Edhi morgue for
want of identification after medico-legal formalities at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre."
In the neighbouring town of Landhi, the perforated carcass of another young man was found.
Police said the victim, later identified as Umair, son of Wasim, was hit by three bullets fired from a very close range.
"The area where the body was found is called Khurramabad. The body was lying abandoned along the boundary wall of a government school called Rafiq-un-Nisa Primary School," said Inspector Mazhar Iqbal Awan, the SHO of the Landhi cop shoppe. "The victim was wearing trousers and shirt. We could only determine his identity through an ID card found in his pocket, which showed he was a resident of Orangi Town."
Another killing was reported in the same town when 44-year-old Gul Shah was killed in firing.
Police said the victim hailed from South Wazoo and might have been targeted for personal enmity.
"We have also found bullets of .222 rifle from the victim's pocket. He was killed in Bhutto Nagar in the Landhi 89 area," said the SHO of the Landhi cop shoppe.
A man driving a car was ambushed Near Safoora Chowrangi in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
Police said 40-year-old Ghulam Rabbani was attacked as he slowed down at the Safoora Chowrangi.
"He was a resident of an apartment in Gulistan-i-Jauhar and we think he was being followed by the armed riders who struck him near the Safoora Chowrangi. The victim's family denies his association with any political or other group," said Shabbir Mustafa, the SHO of the Sachal cop shoppe.
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Terrorists Insurgents exploded a roadside homemade bomb in an ambush on a unit of Thai troops, killing one and wounding two others Monday morning.
The blast occurred at 6:55 a.m. while the unit of six troops was patrolling Khokyakha-Chalong Road along the Pattani River. The unit was patrolling the road to provide security for teachers heading to school in the morning. Police said the terrorists insurgents detonated the bomb by remote control from the other bank of the river.
Corporal Atthapol Hongkham, 25, was fatally wounded and died later. Sgt Prachak Wisetrat, 27 and Pvt Assawin Phoolphan, 21, were injured severely.
One man was killed and another injured in a shooting at a market in Narathiwat province on Sunday, while the owner of a rubber plantation lost his leg in a booby trap explosion in the same province.
Sapaeing Yako, 34, was gunned down at a Sunday market in front of the Ruso train station while the other victim, Maradeearman Denaramkhan, 44, was wounded and rushed to a hospital.
They were shot by a terrorist gunman on a pick-up truck, driving by and then stopping at the market. The terrorist gunman fired at locals buying goods.
In another incident, a local villager Aduenang Samor, 30, stepped on a booby trap in a rubber plantation. His left leg was blown off. The police believe that the two incidents were the work of terrorists ill-intentioned persons, as they had left tripod spikes on road leading to the crime scene.
In adjacent province of Yala, a special unit destroyed a bomb weighing 20 kilograms in the provincial seat.
Major Thani Kiartthisan, deputy commander of a special military unit, was warned by villagers about a bomb planted roadside near the entrance of the village, on a route that soldiers usually patrolled. The bomb disposal squad and sniffer dogs defused the bomb in a gas cylinder buried underground and connected to a remote radio wire detonator.
A report from the investigation team said the spot, where the bomb was found, is an area where a group of terrorists insurgents led by Madaree Arong is active. There was also a report that Madaree is planning to launch an attack during Ramadan.
Happy Ramadan, everybody!
[An Nahar] At least 145 people were killed on Sunday, among them 113 in the flashpoint protest city of Hama, when the Syrian military stormed several cities across the country, the National Organization for Human Rights said.
Activists said it was one of deadliest days in Syria since demonstrators first erupted into the streets on March 15 demanding democratic reforms before turning their wrath on the regime and calling for its ouster.
Abdul Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights, said "100 civilians were rubbed out Sunday in Hama by security forces."
Rihawi added that "five people were rubbed out by security forces in several neighborhoods of Homs, whose residents erupted into the streets in support of the city of Hama."
Ammar Qorabi, who heads the National Organization for Human Rights, said that elsewhere, "19 people were killed in Deir Ezzor in the east, six more died in Harak in the south and one in al-Bukamal," also in the east.
Earlier, Rami Abdul Rahman of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a corpse count in Hama of 45, but said that number could rise because of many seriously maimed and a lack of medical supplies.
He also reported six dead and 50 maimed in Deir Ezzor and three killed and dozens maimed at Harak in the Daraa region.
One resident reached by phone told Agence La Belle France Presse the army entered Hama at around 6:00 am (0300 GMT) in an apparent operation to wrest back control after almost two months during which security forces were absent.
Another said: "Five tanks are now deployed outside the governor's palace," and spoke of intermittent gunfire.
The official SANA news agency reported two members of the security forces killed on Sunday by "gangs" in Hama.
"Two law enforcement members were martyred by gangs in Hama who set cop shoppes on fire, vandalized public and private properties, set up roadblocks and barricades and burned tires at the entrance of the city and in its streets," an English-language report on the SANA website said.
It said soldiers were dismantling the barricades.
"Armed groups of scores of gunnies are stationed on the rooftops of the main buildings in the streets of the city, carrying up-to-date machine guns and RPGs and shooting intensively to terrorize citizens," it quoted unidentified residents as saying.
The Syrian Observatory said the army also launched an operation against Muadhamiya in the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... region.
"Security forces launched an offensive at 5:00 am (0200 GMT) on Muadhamiya from the north, with tanks blocking the southern, eastern and western entrances to the town," Abdul Rahman said.
The Syrian League for the Defense of Human Rights reported more than 300 people jugged in Muadhamiya, where electricity supplies and communications had been cut.
The eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor and Hama have been rallying points for pro-democracy protests since mid-March.
In 1982, an estimated 20,000 people were killed in Hama when the army put down an Islamist revolt against the rule of President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's late father, Hafez.
The president replaced the governor of Hama after a record 500,000 protesters rallied in the opposition bastion on July 1 calling for the fall of the regime.
Activists said at the time it was the single largest demonstration of its kind since the pro-democracy movement erupted on March 15.
Since security forces bumped off 48 protesters in the city on June 3, Hama had beat feet the clutches of the regime, activists say. The next day, more than 100,000 mourners were reported to have massed at their funerals.
On Saturday, Abdul Rahman said troops rubbed out three people who stoned a military convoy heading to quell growing anti-regime dissent in Deir Ezzor.
He said about 60 military vehicles including tanks, personnel carriers and trucks crammed with soldiers deployed there.
A man identifying himself as a Syrian army colonel told AFP that he had defected and has "hundreds" of troops under his command ready to confront the regular army in Deir Ezzor.
"I warn the Syrian authorities that I will send my troops to fight with the (regular) army if they do not stop the operations in Deir Ezzor," Riad al-Asaad said.
"I am the commander of the Syrian Free Army," he said, adding that he commanded "hundreds" of troops and was calling from inside Syria "near the Turkish border."
His claim could not be independently verified.
Deir Ezzor, the main oil- and gas-producing region in Syria, produces 380,000 barrels of oil per day and has seen almost daily demonstrations against the regime.
On Friday, at least three people were killed there when security forces opened fire on 300,000 mourners at the funerals of three people killed the previous day, activists said.
Since anti-regime protests broke out, the crackdown on dissent has resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 civilians and more than 360 members of the security forces, according to a Syrian Observatory toll.
More than 12,000 people are also reported to have been tossed in the clink in the crackdown.
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The budget passes, thousands homeless in Midwest, farmers being paid not to grow food,the pencil wars continue and all is right in the world of Bizzaro Superman and the insane Washington D.C. elite. Close to 700 trillion in fake financial transactions globally does it really matter? Going from triple A to double A-Question where does the third A go? Who cares!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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We've got almost everything working the way it's supposed to work on the Burg. Bad's got the spam chron jobs running, I think. 
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An Iranian tribal leader and four other persons were gunned down in the Pakistani southwestern Balochistan province Saturday night, IRNA reported quoting police as saying.
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At least one person was killed and nine others injured in a hand grenade attack in industrial town of Hub on Sunday.
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At least 145 people were killed on Sunday, among them 113 in the flashpoint protest city of Hama, when the Syrian military stormed several cities across the country, the National Organization for Human Rights said.
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